Honestly, I've been working now for the past couple years without taking any exams and I feel like I need to play catch up. I took the GCIH, was going to follow up with the OWSP and then on to the GWAPT to get the full gambit. We'll see though.

Do you have any recomenedations? I'm always open?

ajohnson wrote:Congrats! The GCIH is a solid cert. Quality over quantity

What are your goals? Those are obviously going to affect recommendations.

The OSWP is fairly easy; the exam doesn't cover more than is included in the course materials. You should be able to knock that out quickly if you go through and understand the exercises.

matt81 wrote:Honestly, I've been working now for the past couple years without taking any exams and I feel like I need to play catch up. I took the GCIH, was going to follow up with the OWSP and then on to the GWAPT to get the full gambit. We'll see though.

Do you have any recomenedations? I'm always open?

What type of position do you currently hold? Where do you want to go? What are your goals?

Recommendations will be vary greatly depending on if you want to be a pen tester compared, or if you want to go into management, or if you want to do something else entirely.

UNIX wrote:If you are more interested in information security management, I'd recommend to take a look at CISM, CISA and CISSP.

+1 CISSP will get you the most bang for you buck, but IMHO, CISM had more relevant material. The CISSP is commonly referred to as being a mile wide and an inch deep, and covers everything from physical security to encryption. The CISM focuses on information security management and doesn't include all the ancillary topics.

The CISA is geared more towards auditing, but it will likely be useful knowledge to have in a management role since you will likely be dealing with SSAE16 audits, PCI audits, internal audits, etc.

If you're good at memorization, you really shouldn't have trouble with CEH (although when I took the v7 refresher - full class - a couple of years ago, I was surprised that only I and one other person passed the exam at the end... Really didn't think it was THAT difficult)

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